Program faculty on the Stony Brook University campus
are located in a complex formed by the Life Sciences Building, Centers
for Molecular Medicine (CMM) and the Health Sciences Center. Because
of the pan-departmental and pan-institutional nature of the program,
departmental members interact regularly with faculty and students
from the departments of pediatrics, physiology, psychology, psychiatry,
pharmacology, and others. The additional, ties with Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratories and Brookhaven National Laboratory provide for a rich
academic environment of research and scholarship.

Molecular facilities provide for analysis of protein and DNA biochemistry,
including microsequencing, peptide mapping, synthesis of oligonucleotides
and peptides, cellular transfection, and production of transgenic
animals. Wide-ranging facilities for cellular and integrative electrophysiology
exist for studies on dissociated neurons, brain slice preparations,
neurons in situ, and genetically engineered cells in culture. Imaging
facilities permit anatomical reconstruction, fluorescence measurements,
and the use of ion-sensitive indicators on both conventional and
confocal microscopes. An image analysis core is linked to a newly
developed scanning and transmission electron microscopy facility.